Bryant “Media Circus” On; Hearing Could Be Off

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~1681283,00.html A large white media tent and dozens of smaller sheltered platforms for television broadcasters have sprung outside the Eagle County, Colo., Courthouse anticipation of the Los Angeles Lakers guard's scheduled appearance Thursday for a preliminary hearing. The Denver Post reports that crews washed the outside of the cinder-block courthouse, erected new signs for parking and finished paving a new, overflow parking lot that was needed before the high-profile case . . .

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